Carole Cadwalladr and Yael Eisenstat on The Criticism of Tech Criticism

Big Technology Podcast

Alex Kantrowitz

Technology, Religion & Spirituality, Business News, Business, Religion, Science, Philosophy, Society & Culture, Entrepreneurship, Management, Marketing, Politics, News Commentary, Government, Investing, Tech News, Social Sciences, News

4.6 • 395 Ratings

🗓️ 31 March 2021

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

Carole Cadwalladr and Yael Eisenstat are two of the most prominent Facebook critics worldwide. Cadwalladr is the journalist who broke open the Cambridge Analytica story for the Guardian and The Observer. Eisenstat, a former CIA officer, worked on election integrity inside Facebook for six months before quitting and speaking out against the company. The two Facebook critics join Big Technology Podcast to discuss some people’s disenchantment with tech criticism, the role of Facebook’s Oversight Board, and how the company might fix its product.

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0:51.7	Hey, Carol.
0:53.1	Hi, Alex. Thanks for joining. Hi, Yael. Hey, how are you? Good. I excited to do this one.
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1:56.3	of the tech world and beyond. Joining us today are two special guests.
2:04.1	Carol Cadwalader is a Pulitzer Prize Award finalist,
2:07.8	best known as the journalist who broke open the Cambridge Analytica story for The Guardian and the Observer.
2:10.2	If you don't remember what happened or haven't heard of it,
2:12.9	essentially it involved a political data company, Cambridge Analytica,
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